Make it warm first
spread our bodies’ heat
through this exotic cotton
and listen to the juts of the radio
the pound of the news
while we haze away from the world
and roll up tightly in each other

Send that brave pilgrim
free already from the day’s
multi-colour entanglements
over the cold mountain of knee
down the coarse-haired calf
past the thick ankle

push your fat toe
beneath the skin-pocking
pressure of my elastic stress
and dive down from view until
we are free together
to be perfect together

Until the chill of morning springs again
with the promise of bedtime